Welcome aboard SV Nakama,
We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us.
After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we're done doing that...Who knows.
Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn.
So join us on this whacky adventure!
Slim & Soph xoxo
We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us.
After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we’re done doing that…Who knows.
Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn.
So join us on this whacky adventure!
Slim & Soph xoxo
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38 days sailing across the Pacific Ocean. Nonstop and no engine. Australia to Japan, 5,500 nautical miles and it's just my mum and I aboard for the journey.
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We’ve just set sail on the biggest ocean crossing we will undertake in our Australian circumnavigation, a...
We’re currently sailing Australia’s deep south, it’s where coast meets the Southern Ocean. We’ve just arrived at the very last island before we set off for the biggest crossing we’ll undertake in our Australian circumnavigation, that’s the Grea...
My Mum and I have set off double-handed on one of the world’s toughest and most prestigious yacht races, the 2024 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. This year's 628 nautical mile ocean race was met with tragedy as the fleet sailed into gale-force winds. Two...
Watch Slim & Soph - Sailing Nakama From The Beginning!
We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple with a cat living aboard exploring our great Aussie backyard - starting with the beautiful coral coast! Unlike most vessels, on Nakama, she's the skipper.
We welcome you aboard our floating home Nakama! After ...
It had been a red hot minute since Nakama came out of the water, closer to 2 years... poor girl was feeling a bit sluggish dragging around what looked like a garden bed on her belly. We figured it was about time we saved our pennies and book her in to be s...
We throw the ropes and begin our journey! First stop, Moreton Island before breaking blue water northbound to cross the Mooloolaba bar! We are over the moon to finally have the old girl cutting through the waters and taking us to faraway lands. And our day...
We've been dying to explore Fraser Island, BUT to get there we must first go through the infamous Wide Bay Bar! This bar is known as the most dangerous bar in Queensland and is something we have been planning and anticipating for months. With a few early s...
We begin the journey up the Sandy Straits and find out why it's called the Sandy Straits when we hit the bottom. Following being attacked by Midgees we push on north. After hours of misguided trekking and a little bit of hitchhiking, we end up at what must...
Are we sinking? We asked ourselves when we found the bilges again full of salty water. We need to get to the bottom of this before we get to the bottom of the ocean.
Slim's on a dingo hunt! So back to Fraser we go! Determined to spot on!
We cook up the worlds wobbliest nachos and sleep to the song of the whales echoing through the hull at the astonishingly beautiful Wathumba Creek.
All the while keeping a keen eye o...
High winds and high seas we surf down waves towards Burnett heads. Following yet another last minute decision we sail back towards the mainland ...leaving Fraser behind us in the moonlight. Upon arrival we a confronted by a pilot boat essentially booting u...
Following some adventures and a few days of hiding from the wind. we set of at day break in agitated seas. Navigating our way through big hulks of steel to Hummocky island. A tiny blip on the map we spotted a few days earlier. With not much information we ...
We discover an abandoned resort and more importantly a bar on Great Keppel Island. We wash off the hangover diving the beautiful reefs and have to get creative with our increasingly low supply of food onboard.
We ran out of tofu and basically everything else so we are on a mission to catch a fish. Still on Great Keppel Island, Slim is determined to go catch us some dinner. With a combined experience of bugger all, we get lucky and join friends on the beach to sh...
Where to begin, we commandeer an old Toyota Camry on the mainland during a much needed supply run. Then battling a hangover and the seas we beat into the wind back to Keppel Island where we commence a game of cat and mouse with the wind. Our musical chairs...
With no autopilot but with cyclone season approaching, we make the call to head south for summer. Leaving Great Keppel Island behind we embark on our first overnight voyage on Nakama with an estimated 70 hours at sea hoping to get back to Tangalooma. Thing...
After crossing the Wide Bay bar and narrowly missing a whale, we are surprised to find a fish on the end of our driftwood contraption. We are on our way south, retracing steps. We sail through the night back into Moreton Bay and then inland through the cha...
Yep, we crashed our drone on Christmas day. A slight interruption into our usual videos, we jump into the future for a Christmas Day special. We hop aboard the Najad 49 in our family and sail out to South Solitary Island where we loose our dear drone. We s...
Who said you can't do a law degree from a boat? We rock back up to Nakama after some time away, a couple of things have changed. Slims started his law degree, we got an autohelm and well Soph stepped on a screw? We head over to South Stradbroke Island whil...
Leaving spontaneously in the late afternoon, we set off back into the ocean towards Coffs Harbour. Sailing into the night we are confronted with lightning and some of the strongest winds we have faced on Nakama yet. As the sunrises, we find ourselves off C...
We are stuck in a 10.47 metre boat surrounded by heavy rain, damaging winds and just metres from dangerous surf. We got to Coffs Harbour just in time for a huge low-pressure system to grace us with its presence. We realise how small Nakama really is as we ...
We finish off 2020 by hopping aboard our mates Beneteau and sail out to an island off the NSW coast. We get up early in attempt to leave Coffs Harbour to head further south, though we wake to the most recent update of the Covid situation in the greater Syd...
Broken bones, broken engine, broken autohelm... we decide to turn back. Thinking we are hitting the ocean again, we don't get very far before our engine conks out on us, the autopilot isn't keeping us on course and Slim is in terrible pain and not able to ...
The repairs continue. Last week, our engine and autopilot failed on us. Priority number one, the engine. We find that the engine oil is completely contaminated with diesel, not good. We bypass the old lift pump and run a new electric fuel pump and do multi...
We have re-evaluated our plans and decided to start looking at our never ending boat list of chores. With majority of the wiring on the boat being absolutely chaotic we attempt to gain some order. In the process of fixing our manual bilge pump we have foun...
I went to jail on my 23rd birthday. Where did I go so wrong?
We left at sparrow fart out of Coffs Harbour towards Trial Bay. Of course, we don't have any instruments working. All good though, we do it the old fashioned way, counting our knots and checking ...
The most enjoying type of sailing is downwind sailing, an upright boat with high speeds *chefs kiss of approval*. We spend the afternoon at Trial bay, making some small repairs in order to sail again in the morning. We wake early and head off, our engine i...
"IS THAT A TUNA?" Soph gasped as she laid eyes on the biggest fish she has ever witnessed being caught.
Coffs harbour still has us hostage with its boat jobs. We attempt to fix our dinghy, twice...
We put our dinghy misery to bed and jump into a tinny fo...
We have very exciting news this week. After servicing a winch, cutting Slims hair we finally received something we have been considering to get for a long time, we couldn't be more stoked for all the possibilities it will provide us with. Hopefully this is...
WE GOT TO 18 KNOTS!!! wwooooooo! Under time pressure to get Red Jacket to Yamba, we leave in the early hours of the morning and head out into 30 knots. With just 2 reefs in the main, that is all Red needed to get going off waves. We hooned down sizable sea...
Australia is experiencing a natural disaster flooding event. We do our best to find somewhere safe to anchor as we have seen the unimaginable on the news. Houses, cows and other large debris are floating from upriver in the various river systems along the ...
Sailing from Yamba to the Gold Coast means passing our hometown, Byron Bay AND! we actually got to see it this time...
The massive Australian floods are settling. After a skate to the Yamba Bar, we are happy to see the crossing conditions have eased and i...
This week living aboard a boat has brought us right into the heart of the Gold Coast. Our outboard has broken down, leaving us floating away in the current, luckily we get saved by a fellow yachty but are stuck on the boat in the rain until it's fixed. We ...
Um can I come back aboard now?
We head up through the back channels of the Gold Coast, weaving through houseboats, ducking underneath powerlines and almost crashing another drone. Making it into Moreton Bay, we head to Peel Island before Soph makes Slim g...
We're not on the boat anymore.
A journey into the Australian Hinterland. We introduce you to our home, family, friends and life before sailing took over.
Waking up in the hills we trek down 8km of dirt road to good old Mullumbimby to meet Slims Mum. We f...
Our first time throwing our spinnaker, we don't know whether it is asymmetrical or symmetrical, there is only one way to find out. So up she goes. We're learning by doing and we are doing what we can, how not to throw a spinnaker.
We leave Brisbane, it's ...
Well, it all starts off with a couple of boats directly in front of us upstream collecting one another. What do we do? There is no one on board and it's getting dark.
Where in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, anchored in "the pond", a crowd...
Soph hasn't had a shower in a week so and is going slightly loopy from UNI assignments, so she treats herself to a saucepan shower.
We get up at sparrow fart to leave Mooloolaba but find a blown fuse that runs all of our 2 instruments. Our day plans drast...
Ah, so this is what Double Island Point is all about, we show you Double Island Point from a monohull, don't worry we let you in on the info so you can also join the fun.
Waking up at beautiful Double Island Point, we take advantage of the bluest water we...
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